Re: refining .gitignores

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 14, 2007, 23:02 UTC
Message-ID: <20071114230258.GG3973@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <804pfobgkp.fsf@tiny.isode.net>

Bruce Stephens, Wed, Nov 14, 2007 23:36:06 +0100:

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> How do I get a list of files (in HEAD, say) that would be ignored by
> the .gitignore files (and the other usual settings)?
> 
> It feels like something like this ought to work:
> 
>      git ls-files -z | xargs -0 git ls-files --ignored
> 
> But listing its arguments that are ignored by .gitignore (etc.)
> doesn't seem to be what "git ls-files --ignored" does.  Or at least,
> not quite as straightforwardly as that.

git ls-files --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore -X .git/info/exclude -i -o

> The motivation is (obviously) that I fear some of the .gitignore
> patterns are too broad, and a reasonable check is that none of the
> files that are already committed would be caught by the patterns.

git ls-files --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore -X .git/info/exclude -i

(IOW, remove the -o aka --others)